Not just in my life, Aditya Birla Group has been an indispensable part of every Indian’s life since the longest time. It has served us like no one else ever did. A true sense of belongingness that Aditya Birla Group has provided in us through its products is beyond any other match. Presenting a few of them would be an honour to me. For instance : From providing its invisible hand in aluminium sector producing 50 percent of the cans , to empowering 7 million trains(Novelis Inc). From helping me build the home of my dreams to the roads that lead me to them (Ultratech Cement). From shaping my automobile (Hindalco) to making the world safer using carbon black in manufacturing almost 33 percent (Birla Carbon), ABG is BIG. From securing futures (Aditya Birla Capital) to being the copper in Indian Railways (Birla Copper) and from being an Idea to connect the world debarring the geographical boundaries (Vodafone Idea) to protecting our mobile phone screens (Hindalco), ABG is BIG. From shielding me against all the contigencies (Birla Sun Life Insurance) to fueling life to the savings of a million dreams (Aditya Birla Payments Bank), ABG was BIG. From influencing my sense of fashion (Pantaloons) to bringing me the world of fashion and going on to become India’s first billion-dollar fashion powerhouse (Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail), ABG is BIG. BIG is always the aggregate of its smaller components. The utilities offered by each brand of the group assembles to BIG value creation in my everyday life. I would be honoured to work for a conglomerate that believes in “Taking India to the world” and making it #BigInYourLife.
Life is a story which never proceeds without challenges. I have always believed that these challenges are meant to be challenged. Though I consider myself to be lucky enough to not have faced any big hardships in life as such, because a strong family was always ready to take them for me but I did carve out my own way as I grew up.
As a young toddler I was not very excited to go to school for studies, friends and mischief were the only attraction, it was a big challenge to introduce ‘discipline’ in my life. As a child it’s difficult to understand this but once when somehow I managed to achieve a top rank in the class, it was a big incentive for me to continue being a hard working and disciplined individual all through my life. How far I remember, I have always been playing cricket in my life, maybe this interaction with so many players led me believe that team is what is the most important part of winning a game. Once I had to captain a team of players who were considerably weaker as compared to the other, that day the challenge before me was to make that team win and instigating self belief and the importance of being in a team was enough to overcome that challenge, this particular incidence has helped me survive through a lot of difficult situations in life; just keeping in mind that you can do it. We do not realize this often but in this millennial world, saving yourself from all the distractions is a big challenge, things like peer pressure sometime become a big challenge, I am happy and somewhere proud to have said ‘no’ at times when it was difficult. I have managed to make beautiful friendships despite all this which have taught me to value human relationships more over materialistic desires. An individual can do anything if he really wants to do it, this idea has inspired me in all my difficult times, particularly in undergraduation, I had a lot of expectations with myself to get into the best college after my school, but luck too is a factor in life. I always felt that I was compromising with my potential with not getting a good company and he desired environment, but as I have already mentioned, self belief can do wonders, I stopped questioning myself and started doing what best I could have done and as hard work always pays you at the end, I ended up being in place like MDI.